Flowchart diagram summarizing the methodology. Credit: Journal of the American Heart Association (2024). Electronic cigarette or e-cigarette “vaping” has gained popularity, both among smokers as a purported aid to quit smoking tobacco-related products all together, but also especially among adolescents and teenagers. Vaping is considered “safer” than smoking, but growing evidence points to its significant role in...
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Positive antiphospholipid antibodies raises cardiovascular disease risk in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
by American College of Rheumatology Micrograph of a heart with fibrosis (yellow) and amyloidosis (brown). Movat’s stain. Credit: Nephron/Wikipedia New research at ACR Convergence 2023, the American College of Rheumatology’s (ACR) annual meeting, describes a link between positive antiphospholipid antibodies and an increased risk of future cardiovascular disease in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Antiphospholipid...
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AI technique identifies people who would benefit most from treatment to reduce future cardiovascular disease risk
by Enrique Rivero, University of California, Los Angeles Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New UCLA research suggests that a novel machine-learning technique known as “causal forest” was about five times more efficient than the current clinical practice of treating patients with high blood pressure. Under current practice, physicians treat patients with high blood pressure under the assumption that people at...